Ervín Arie David

"Then the people from the Joint organized them, they took care of them not only from the medical side, but they wrote down everyone's name and sent all the notes to London, and through Jewish organizations they sent it from London to Bratislava, and from Bratislava they sent it to all places in Slovakia. At that time, we were in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš and every day we went to such places where there were all the names of the people who were saved, who did not die. We went to look at those lists every day. One day we went there and saw my father's name. That was the first time we knew he was even alive. We didn't know any news about him, nothing. Since he was taken, it was in December 1944. And this was already in May 1945. We didn't know anything for four or five months and that was the first time we knew he was alive. I remember that like today.'

„And when they came to our village, I remember it was called Palúdzka, it was announced that all men had to come to the office, to such a central place. My father wanted to go, but my mother said: 'You are not going, it is better to hide somewhere and not go there.' But my father said, I don't know why, that he is going. The Germans came there and each man showed his ID. My father had an ID card, I don't know if it said that he was an evangelical, but he was not Jewish. There was another Jew, I think he was my teacher when I was in the first grade. After they knew everything, they said: 'OK, now everyone's pants down.' So, of course, they immediately caught my father and the other one and that they would take them. Father asked if he could go home to prepare a few things for the trip. All right, so one went with him to where we lived so that my mother could prepare some clothes and something to eat. A local policeman went with him, waiting for my mother to prepare everything. Then one of those Germans came and asked what is taking so long, we have to go. All right, she'll finish it right away. And then he asked about my mother. And the local Slovak policeman told him that she was not Jewish at all, she had the documents that she was not Jewish. I was not at home at that time. They knew the Germans were coming, so they told me to leave.I don't remember where, but I wasn't at home. I was eight years old then, they were afraid that if they caught us, they would also catch me. The local Slovak policeman said to the German officer: 'Lassen Sie die Frau und das Kind.'And he left my mother and my one-and-a-half-year-old sister, and they took only my father, and they all went in some kind of car, I think, to Sereď, and from there he went by train to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp."